Re: [SLUG] Linux VPNd for MS VPN clients

From: Steven Buehler (swbuehler@yahoo.com)
Date: Sun Jul 13 2003 - 14:19:54 EDT


There are a few commercial X-window server products for Windows on the
market (the names escape me right now) but I found that the open-source
version that's included with Cygwin (which is FREE) works every bit as well,
if not better.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mario Lombardo" <mario@alienscience.com>
To: <slug@nks.net>
Sent: Sunday, July 13, 2003 1:27 PM
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Linux VPNd for MS VPN clients

> The Windows clients don't wish to run anything that Linux has to offer
other
> than the services such as Samba and hopefully a VPNd. They use a
proprietary
> Windows application that hasn't been ported to Linux yet. Secure file
> sharing is a transparent service so they can go about their business w/o
> retooling software. X over ssh is a great idea, and I wish they could
profit
> from it. I've even looked for a similar application in Linux.
>
> /mario
>
>
> On Friday 11 July 2003 12:46, you wrote:
> > --- Russell Hires <rhires@earthlink.net> wrote:
> > > Ahhh...ignorance is bliss. This would describe me
> > > well... but for those that
> > > are interested in security, you can always do port
> > > forwarding via ssh....I
> > > believe that the guy from Gentoo wrote a howto on
> > > this process, and I know
> > > that there is a link to another on the primary vnc
> > > website...
> >
> > If you're connecting to a linux server from Windows,
> > why not just do it via ssh and an X session? I use
> > cygwin's ssh and x-windows implementation on the
> > Windows side. Install cygwin
> > (http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe) on the Windows side,
> > open its X-Windows ('xinit') and do an 'ssh -X
> > <user>@<host>' in one of the xterms; once connected
> > issue 'gnome-session' or 'startkde' depending on which
> > environment you want to work in. It's much more
> > secure than VNC.
> >
> > SWB
> >
> >
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